Day of Kashmiris’ oath
By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

DESPITE swiftly changing scenario in South Asia due to typical hideous mindset of the New Delhi rulers which has, in a way blocked the process of Confidence Building Measures [CBMs] by putting off the July-20 FS-level parleys the chivalrous people of the Jammu and Kashmir State rejoice the Accession-to-Pakistan Day today with the resolve to put their final destiny with Pakistan at all costs to transform the glorious visualization of the Quaid-i-Azam.

Spectacular rallies, inspiring seminars, pragmatic symposia and the hoisting of the Pakistani flag atop offices and houses in AJK marked the day’s events all over Azad Kashmir, Pakistan and the world over wherever people with Kashmiri-origin are dwelling. This is in deed a matchless characteristic of Kashmiris, who observe the occasion every year to reiterate their earnest belief about their outlook, austerely in line with the historic resolution which was adopted at a momentous session of their popular political party, the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference that took place on this day in Aabiguzar adjacent to famed Dal Lake in the dazzling city of Srinagar, 59-year ago.

On July the 19th in 1947 a meeting of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference was held at the residence of the illustrious Kashmiri leader, late Sardar Mohammed Ibrahim Khan, which was chaired by the veteran leader, Ch Hamidullah Khan because the apex leader, Quaid-e-Millat Ch Ghulam Abbas was put behind the bars by the nasty ruler Hari Singh for voicing the bona fide will of the people against the Dogra regime.

The fêted resolution of the State’s accession to Pakistan was presented in the presence of 59 bold and vibrant leaders, of whom only a few, including the illustrious historian Allama Mohammed Yaqoob Hashmi, are now alive. As was envisioned the resolution was instantaneously adopted with one-voice amid boom of slogans Allah-o-Akbar (God is Great) and Pakistan Zindabad (Long Live Pakistan) by the partakers as well as a copious number of Kashmiris, camouflaging the venue of the moot. This was amid a definite ray of hope to have a peaceful and bright future with the end of the century-old despotic Dogra clout, which had clandestinely surfaced with the inking of the notorious Treaty of Armitsar between the British rule and their sycophant Gulab Singh, on August the 16th in 1846, opening a Pandora’s Box for the guiltless people, most explicitly for the Muslims of the State. The resolution expressed Kashmiris out-and-out and absolute confidence in the dynamic leadership of the Father of the Nation, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah [RA] with the words; ‘We salute him (The great Quaid) and congratulate him from the core of our hearts with mammoth delight and soul satisfaction on the auspicious occasion of the establishment of Pakistan.

The State of Jammu and Kashmir, the resolution had recalled has been linked with Pakistan by the Nature through all perceptions, religiously, geographically, territorially, commercially plus via the unshakable bonds of civilization and culture with a singular fact the heartbeat of each of every Kashmiri synchronizes alone with their brethren in Pakistan. Airing a stern warning to the Hindu Dogra ruler, the valiant people of the State, with more than 85 per cent Muslim populace asked Singh to declare the State’s accession with Pakistan without any vacillation before August 14th 1947 or get ready to face a cataclysmic fate if this popular voice of the people is mistreated.

Yet, eventually, the monotonous, cunning and dim-witted ‘Maharaja’ [the Ruler] had to meet a dreadful end for eschewing the popular will of the bona fide citizens of the State as India, through a gruesome operation resorted to an illicit invasion of the J & K State. To thwart this illegitimate and inane Indian act the heroic people of the State stood up like an unyielding rock against the atrocious Dogra regime under the courageous and spirited leadership of Mujahid-e-Awwal Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan who is now the Supreme Head of the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference. This culminated into the establishment of Azad Kashmir as a base camp for the liberation of the rest of the State’s territory from the unjust Indian yoke.

This, by all perceptions is to be the pragmatic essence of the theme of the pledge, going to be made by the heroic Kashmiris at the galaxies which have been arranged, even this year [alike the past] to mark the momentous occasion of the Accession of the Jammu and Kashmir State with Pakistan in every nook and corner of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, the Indian Held Kashmir and elsewhere. The day recollects the fabulous and realistic vow by the people of Jammu and Kashmir asking India to bow before their acknowledged aspires for exercising their birth right of self-determination to save the South Asia region from a catastrophic peril.

The Kashmiris would urge India to quit the part of the Himalayan State of Jammu & Kashmir which New Delhi is keeping in bondage at hefty gun-point with the deployment of almost a million military might instantaneously if at all it is serious to avert the potential catastrophic risks in the region at-once. As is indexed in the folio of the history, India is fully aware of the fact that not a single Kashmiri shall vote for New Delhi and that is why the perfidious Indians, steering the affairs are evading the UN resolutions with sham excuses one-way or the other.

As a matter of fact, it was a paradigm first time happening in the British political history, which copiously realizes the acts of the Indian hoax along with the constant antagonistic posture of New Delhi, a wearisome mindset, which has not only been putting the peace in the South Asia a disaster-prone scenario but had also created possibilities of engulfing the entire world with an ill-fated tragedy if the process of Confidence Building Measures [CBMs] would not have been set off with a flexible and cogent approach by Pakistan. Otherwise, if a skirmish would have erupted between the two nuclear-armed neighbours at the behest of India, it would have overcast the global peace in totality. The best course for India thus remains is the acceptance of the global voice and to bend before the ground reality that the solution of the Kashmir dispute is as essential for the survival of the worldwide peace as the breathing of a lifeline. Obviously, the illustrious speakers at seminars and symposia would, once again make it as clear as crystal.

Whereas, the AJKMC is ruling the realm of Azad Kashmir, paradoxically, the stocky Information set-up of AJK has, in the yesteryears been keeping an awful mum and did not bother even to issue any matter or stuff on the Kashmir cause by disseminating even an elfin press release or any article on the historic event. Instead, they opted to rest in cosy and comfy dwellings in Azad Kashmir or the majestic and marvellous Kashmir House in Islamabad. I feel optimistic that this trend shall not be allowed by the new Premier Sardar Attique.

I am sure that the top leadership of Azad Kashmir coming into power shall shun and set-aside all the in-house political mêlée. Simply, a joyride to the soothing and relaxing empires in the West like the UK and USA, both by the previous people-in-power and exclusively by the leaders of opposition in out-going Azad Kashmir Assembly was in no way a service to the Kashmir cause and such an allure would place them in an environ full of convolutions and complexities. So why not to go far an apposite course to foil and thwart, the nasty propaganda crusade, set-off by India to dupe and hoodwink the Orb vis-à-vis the sagacious and logical standpoint of Kashmiris?●

© 2006 Mumtaz Hamid Rao